Job Description

Description

Here, we believe theres not one path to success, we believe in careers that grow with you. Whoever you are or wherever you come from in the world, theres a place for you at Sherwin-Williams. We provide you with the opportunity to explore your curiosity and drive us forward. Well give you the space to share your strengths and we want you to show us what you can do. You can innovate, grow and discover in a place where you can thrive and Let Your Colors Show!

Sherwin-Williams values the unique talents and abilities from all backgrounds and characteristics. All qualified individuals are encouraged to apply, including individuals with disabilities and Protected Veterans.

The Americas Group (TAG) IT department has an opportunity for a Senior Java Developer position, to support new and existing Paint Stores Group National Accounts / Credit applications.

This highly technical and challenging position will work with the Java Development Sher-link Team on the National Accounts, Credit and the Mobius Repository applications. Other areas of involvement may include providing web services to corporate and other departments including stores. Development responsibilities will encompass new logic/features, enhancements, and bug fixes/support.

Essential Functions

Strategy & Planning
Acquire and interpret business requirements, creates a functional specification, and determines the most efficient/appropriate technologies.
While following department established standards, influence users in determining the best design to meet project requirements. Responsible for implementing approved architecture design.
Design, submit and review technical and process improvement recommendations as a member of the technical leadership team.

Acquisition & Deployment
Perform complex programming assignments requiring an advanced aptitude of established programming standards, methods, and best practices.
Design application and database components for development projects.
Perform analysis of business models, logical specifications, and/or customer requirements to design and build Internet solutions utilizing multiple technologies.
Mitigate significant risks associated with projects, which have a high technical complexity and/or involve significant challenges to the business.
Understand the business problem being solved and recommend the best solution.

Operational Management
Maintain and modify applications; make approved changes by amending application documentation, developing detailed programming logic, and coding changes.
Provide support for critical application problems and issues. Develop proactive measures to ensure issue is solved and or easily discovered going forward.
Act as a Subject Matter Expert in the discovery and investigation of critical production problems as required.
Collaborate with business domain experts to analyze and assess existing business critical functions. Recommend improvements to operational processes.
Assist Project Manager in the definition, gathering, development, and documentation of business and/or technical requirements, objectives, deliverables, design specifications and project plans.
Participate in requirements gathering and design responsibilities. Create documentation such as Technical Requirements and High-Level Design documents.
Collaborate with other developers, programmers, and designers in conceptualizing and development of new software programs and applications.
Lead or participate in software design reviews.
Assist in the diagnosis and correction of system issues and software bugs. Participate in measures to prevent them from happening again.

Incidental Functions

Conduct research into new technologies, including tools, components, and frameworks.
Train and knowledge share with development teams.
Mentor and coach developers and/or Professional Apprentices.
Self-manage project work, tasks and status reporting as necessary.
Make presentations to management, clients, and peer groups as requested.
Provide off hour support for critical application problems and issues.
Analyze performance of programs and take action to correct deficiencies based on consultation with clients and approval of supervisor.
Assist with other projects as may be required to contribute to efficiency and effectiveness of the work.
Participate in hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy.
Minimal travel, up to 5%, may be required
Work outside the standard office 7.5 hour workday may be required.

Position Requirements

Formal Education & Certification
Bachelor Degree or foreign equivalent in related field or equivalent experience.

Knowledge & Experience
5+ years of IT experience.
5+ years experience working on all phases of the Software Development Lifecycle.
Experience working with customers to build and formulate business requirements.
5+ years Java, ORM/JPA/Hibernate, Web Services, Object-oriented design techniques, and common design patterns.
3+ years of experience in writing SQL queries and stored procedures to Oracle databases.
Experience testing, debugging, and diagnosing software bugs and system issues.
Experience with JEE 6, JAX-RSS, ESB, XML, XML Schemas, developing internationalized and localized software, Unicode, GIT, and Unix strongly preferred.
Experience in automated testing desired.

Personal Attributes
Strong written and oral communications skills.
Proven ability and initiative to learn and research new concepts, ideas, and technologies quickly.
Strong systems/process orientation with demonstrated analytical thinking, organization skills and problem-solving skills.
Ability to work in a team-oriented, collaborative environment.
Ability to quickly pick up new tools and technologies.
Willingness and ability to train and teach others.
Ability to facilitate meetings and follow up with resulting action items.
Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment.
Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
Ability to work effectively in a multi-cultural environment, and to lead and influence cross-organizationally with and without direct authority.
Ability to effectively move forward on tasks even with ambiguous or changing requirements.

Candidate must be eligible to work in the country for which they are applying for employment, without now or in the future needing sponsorship for employment work visa and/or permanent residence status.

Sherwin-Williams is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer committed to an inclusive and diverse workplace. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information, creed, marital status or any other consideration prohibited by law or by contract.

As a VEVRAA Federal Contractor, Sherwin-Williams requests state and local employment services delivery systems to provide priority referral of Protected Veterans.